Pirates of the Burning Sea Site - Dev Log

Lead Writer John Tynes of Washington-based Flying Lab shares his perspective on reaching the newest milestone.

By IGN Staff

Yesterday afternoon, John Tynes posted another developer log which saw him discussing the most recent build which carries some new functionality as outlined in bullet form. This paragraph follows:

All of this is pretty rough-and-ready at the moment. And right now, we only have one ship finished enough to be fully playable -- the Ketch, which we just received from Akella this week. (We'll have screenshots for you soon; bug fixes are taking priority and the nature of those fixes prevents us from doing screenshots of the ship today.) Our ship models are very complicated and contain a lot of data and structure that is tied into the gameplay code. So for instance, you can't have cannon unless the ship model has locator nodes in the proper places on the decks for cannon to go. So once Akella finishes the model, Augustus still has a lot of work to do in order to make the ship playable in the engine.

A perpetual state sailing game whose warring nations are those of England, France and Spain, Pirates of the Burning Sea takes place around the Caribbean in a title featuring skill-based progression. - TruthSword